Verion 8, FixPak 5 now avaialable

Marcus_A · #1 (**permalink**) 02-25-04, 10:21

I found out recently on another forum, that even number fixpaks have functional improvements and fixes, while odd number fixpaks only have fixes.

sathyaram_s · #2 (**permalink**) 02-25-04, 10:33

mmm .. This is how it was originally planned ... But, as far as I understand, all fixes and/or updates have had new functionality ...

Not yet sure about FP5

Cheers
Sathyaram

Quote:

Originally posted by Marcus_A
I found out recently on another forum, that even number fixpaks have functional improvements and fixes, while odd number fixpaks only have fixes.

Marcus_A · #3 (**permalink**) 02-25-04, 10:47

Just repeating what someone from the IBM Toronto Lab posted on the DB2 newsgroup. It was posted about 6 months ago, IIRC.

ARWinner · #4 (**permalink**) 02-25-04, 13:49

What Marcus heard about odd and even fixpacks is true. I got it straight from IBM at last years IDUG conference. FP5 is out as of 2/24/2004:

http://www-306.ibm.com/cgi-bin/db2ww...dex.d2w/report

Andy

sathyaram_s · #5 (**permalink**) 02-25-04, 15:53

Sorry ... I could have made it clear ..

Yes, I have read Updates-Fixpack difference earlier ... What I tried to tell was the fact that fixpacks(odd ones) have had updates ...

Cheers
Sathyaram

Quote:

Originally posted by ARWinner
What Marcus heard about odd and even fixpacks is true. I got it straight from IBM at last years IDUG conference. FP5 is out as of 2/24/2004:

http://www-306.ibm.com/cgi-bin/db2ww...dex.d2w/report

Andy

nitingm · #6 (**permalink**) 02-26-04, 06:43

Hi,

I have been through the apar list of the fix pack 5 and it seems to have addressed many issues relating to memory allocation in FP4.

Let's hope this is a better version we still are running around with IBM and PMR's to find some resolutions to instance crashing in FP4.

Cheers

Nitin.

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